HALLOWEEN CUP 2018 01-03 November 2018 OPTIMIST Class SAILING INSTRUCTIONS 1 RULES. The regatta will be governed by the Rules as defined the current WS RRS and FIV Italian sailing rules. N over A P signal (danger signal) may be used; if displayed with 3 sounds it means: All races are abandoned; reach the nearest harbour or safe place; further signals ashore. The ferryboats have always the right of way The advertisement is not permitted, exceeding WS regulation 20. If there is a conflict between languages the English text will prevail. 2 NOTICE TO COMPETITORS Notices to competitors will be posted on the official notice board located outside the race office. 3 CHANGES TO THE SAILING INSTRUCTIONS. Any change to the sailing instructions will be posted at least 1 hour before the warning signal of the race scheduled, except that any change of the schedule of the races will be posted by 18.00 on the day before it will take effect. 4 SIGNALS MADE ASHORE. Signals, will be hoisted on the Club Signals mast located in front of the club. Displaying D Flag with one sound means The warning signal will be made in not less than 30 minutes. Boats shall not leave the shore or jetties until this signal is made. Flag L (Lima): (1 acoustic signal by the hoisting) A notice is posted on the Official Notice Board. 5 SCHEDULE OF RACES. Date of racing: Thursday 01 3 Races Warning signal for the 1 st race at 12.30 Friday 02 3 Races Saturday 03 2 Races and price giving ceremony. The starting time of the second day will be posted on the official Notice Board before 18.00 of the previous day. Without this, the starting time of the first day of race will be in force. In case of heat fleet see the instructions on appendix 2 Cadets will compete fleet races, with a maximum of 8 races, but no more than 3 per day, Juniores will sail fleet races (maximum 8), but not more than 3 races per day. After a long postponement, to alert boats that a race or sequence of races will begin soon, an orange flag will be displayed with one sound for at least five minutes before a warning signal is displayed. On the last day of the regatta no warning signal will be made after 15.00.If the warning signal of the first battery is made by 15.00 the time limit of the second/ third battery is extended to 15.30.
9 CLASS FLAGS Juniores Group: Flag of the colour of the battery Cadets Group; Flag of the colour of the battery Juniores and Cadets will display the group colour ribbon at the rear end of the sprit. 7 RACE AREA. The races will be held in the North side of the Lake Garda. 8 - THE COURSE The diagrams in Attachment 1 show the courses including the approximate angles between legs, the order in which marks are to be passed, and the side on which each mark is to be left. The target time for Juniors will be 40 minutes. A different duration will not be considered ground for redress.(change RRS62) 9 - MARKS. The starting mark will be a White inflatable buoy or a mast on a RIB displaying an orange flag. The finishing mark will be a spherical red inflatable buoy with a pole hoisting an orange flag. The course marks 1, 2,3 will be yellow cubic inflatable buoy. 10- AREA THAT ARE OBSTRUCTIONS None 11 THE START. Races will be started as per RRS rule 26 with the warning signal 5 before the start. The starting line will be the imaginary line between the orange flag hoisted on the Race Committee boat and the starting mark. The sequence of the starting Groups will be (Juniores) YELLOW BLUE- RED and (Cadets) WHITE- GREEN. This order may be changed. The warning signal has to be taken into consideration. Every boat starting 4 minutes after the starting signal will be scored DNS, which changes rules RRS 63.1 and A.5 12- CHANGE OF THE NEXT LEG OF THE COURSE Not applicable 13 THE FINISH. The finishing line will be the imaginary line between the blue flag on the race committee boat and the finishing mark. 14 PENALITY SYSTEM The Appendix P will apply for Juniores only. For the cadets the Appendix P will not be applied. The penalty for breaches of Class Rules will be Standard Penalties [SP] which changes rule RRS 63.1 and may also be less than disqualification. 15 TIME LIMIT. The time limit for the first finishing boat is 70 minutes.
Boats failing to finish within 15 minutes after the first boat sails the course and finishes, will be scored D.N.F. without a hearing. This change rules 35, A4 and A5. 16 - PROTESTS. In addition to the rule 61.1 for protests or request for redress, concerning incidents on the water, the protesting boat must inform the Race Committee, immediately after her race fishing, indicating the protested boat. A competitors who wants to be considered as Retired (RET), after the finishing or having taken a penalty, has to fill out a short written declaration to the Race Committee within the protest time limit. The missing of this written declaration will invalid the penalty. The protest shall be lodged to the secretary within one hour after the time of the last boat finish of the last daily race. The sail numbers of the protesting, protested boats and witnesses will be posted possibly within 30 minutes after the expiring time limit on the notice board. The officials in charge of the administration of RRS 42 can display a RED flag with a sound signal in case of any other infringements, without indicate the competitor. These is not a penalty but just an advice that the infringement has been noted. Any infringement to S.I. n 4, 19, 20, 22, may be sanctioned by the Jury with a scoring penalty less than the DSQ. On the last day of the regatta a request for redress based on a protest committee decision shall be delivered no later than 30 minutes after the decision was posted. This changes WS RRS 62.2 17 SCORING SYSTEM AND FINAL SCORE. Low Point Scoring System will be applied, rule A4. Modifying A4.1, Discards: Up to 3 races no discard will be allowed. If 4 to 8 races are sailed one discard will be allowed. 1 race is required to be completed to constitute a series. This change NoR 18 JURY BOAT, RACE COMMITTEE BOAT AND OFFICIAL BOATS. The Jury boat will hoist a flag with letter J, the Race Committee Boat will hoist a Club burgee. The Official boats will hoist a white flag with a blue letter S. 19 TRAINING AND SUPPORT BOATS. Team leaders, trainers and other supporters boats shall stay outside areas where boats are racing from the time of the Warning Signal. It is forbidden to cross the racing area until the last boat crosses the finishing line or the Race Committee hoist a postponement or abandoning signal. The penalty for failing to comply with this requirement may be the penalisation as per S.I. 16 above, of the boats associated with the infringing support personnel. The protests regarding breaking of this rule are strictly reserved to the Race Committee or Jury. To integration of the prescription FIV signal RRS N over AP means: "All the Supporters boats and trainers must help the boats of the organization in the safety operations and give the maximum assistance to all the Competitors." Coach and Support boats shall comply with any reasonable request from a race official. When Flag N over AP displayed on the Race Committee Signal Boat with repetitive sound signals all coaches and other support boats shall monitor VHF channel 12 to assist in Search and Rescue operations.
An alleged breach of any of this regulation may be referred to the organizing authority to withdraw accreditation and access rights to the regatta venue and the course areas from the offending party without the option of replacement during the regatta 20 RADIO COMMUNICATION. Except in an emergency, a boat shall neither make radio transmissions while racing nor receive radio communications not available to all boats. This restriction also applies to mobile telephones. 21 PARTICULAR REMARKS. A boat after her finishing must not interfere with a boat that is racing. A boat going to retire, have to signalise her retire to the Race Committee or/and to Organisers Committee returning to the harbour, even if for reasons of major force this take place in another place than that established by the Race Organisers. 22- EQUIPMENT AND MEASUREMENT CHECKS All boats must have a valid measurement certificate, to be showed for the registration to the regatta. Hull, sails and equipment used during the races have to be already measured. Before and during the races measurements and boats weight controls and may be effected Every boat has to race with her own sail number as per measurement certificate. Competitors which boats will be found missing of the following safety items will be penalised with 6 additional point: Lifejacket regularly worn with whistle (rule 4.2(a) IODA.); Bail fastened to the boat (rule 4.3(a) IODA); lanyard (rule 4.3(b) IODA); dagger board fastened to the boat (rule 3.3.4 IODA.) Sailing in any moment without the Lifejacket regularly worn will also involve the disqualification without hearing for more than one race a day (This modifies rule RRS 63.1). 23 LIABILITY. Still remaining the liability of the Organisation Club and the authority of the Race Committee and of the Jury it is to remark the Fundamental Rule # 4 of the RRS regarding the direct liability of the competitors or the legal responsible about the decision to start or to continue the race. It is up to the parents and/or responsible of the competitors to contract the necessary insurance to cover every and any risk including that to a third party. 24- PRIZES Prizes will be given as follows: 1 2 3 Junior and Cadets.1 Female Junior and cadet. WARNING: sailing boats must keep clear of ferryboats.
Appendix 1 COURSE Start 1 2 3(gate) Finish finish start The fleets whose warning signal is not displayed shall stay 50 meters behind the starting line. Behind the 2 red buoys. All coaches shall leave the starting area at the Preparatory signal. Drawing not in scale, approximate angles Course marks are to be left on the left. Finishing mark is to be left on the left If one gate mark 3 is missed leave the other mark on the left. Change rule 34 On the run from the mark 2 to mark 3 the finishing mark shall be left on the left. The finishing line is an obstacle.
Appendix 2 APPENDIX 2 INSTRUCTIONS FOR FLEET RACES C1 The entry list will be split in 3 groups, for Juniors fleet A (Blue) B ( Yellow). C (red) and in 2 groups for Cadets A (White) B (Green) Each of them identified by a coloured ribbon fixed to the Top of the Mast. Seeding committee has authority on group composition. No redress will be given against the group composition. ( This amends RRS 60.1 e 62.1). Boats, if possible, will be reassigned to groups, every day regardless of the races made, based on the overall available results at 7.00p.m. If no races will not be made, the colours assigned will be the same of the day before. Qualifying series: The scheduled qualifying races will be 6. The minimum number of races for the qualifying series is 4 races to be completed within the second day of the event. Final series (gold/silver/red): the final series will consist of a maximum of 3 races to be held on the last scheduled day of the event. The number of boats admitted to the final series will be based on the score reached at the end of the qualifying series and will have a number of boats equal to the largest battery. If, within the penultimate day of racing, the qualifying series could not be completed, the battery system will continue on the last day of the regatta. Any recalculation of the final series assignments after the boats have been assigned will not change the assignments, with the exception that a possible redress given before the first race of the final series, can promote a boat to the gold fleet. C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 Every race consists in 3 heats for Juniors and 2 heats for Cadets each of them made by 1 group. Each race will be counted in overall standings when the 3 heats for Juniors and 2 heats for Cadets will be regularly completed. On last day of racing, if the first heat of a race is started within the time limit, this will be postponed of 30 min. exclusively for the start of the other heats. Second and third heat of a race will start as soon as possible after the start of the first heat. The Groups List will be posted on the official notice board as soon as possible before the first race of the day. The warning signal will be made not earlier than 60 minutes after the time of the posted notice. If a group of a split fleet have not completed the same number of races by the end of a day, the group with fewer races will continue racing the following day until the group have completed the same number of races. Then they will race with the new colour.
C8 If at the end of the regatta (last day) a group of a split fleet have more race scores than other, scores for the most recent race(s) will be excluded so that all groups of that fleet have the same number of race scores.